What is buttinsky mean?
a troublesome meddler
Definition of buttinsky : a person given to butting in : a troublesome meddler.
What is a Budinski?
(bʌtˈɪnski ) or buttinski (bʌtˈɪnski ) noun. Slang. a person who is constantly butting in or meddling in the affairs of other people.
How do you spell Buttinski?
or butt·in·ski noun, plural butt·in·skies. Slang. a person who interferes in the affairs of others; meddler.
Where does the word Buttinski come from?
buttinski (n.) a jocular name for one who cuts into a line, etc., 1902, American English, from verbal phrase butt in (see butt (v.)) + surname ending based on Eastern European names. Butt-in (n.) “person who butts in” is attested from 1906.
How many is umpteenth?
Umpteen usually describes an indefinite and large number or amount, while the related umpteenth is used for the latest or last in an indefinitely numerous series. We only occasionally use umpty these days (and even more rarely umptieth), but you’re bound to hear or read umpteen and umpteenth any number of times.
What are meddlers?
Definitions of meddler. an officious annoying person who interferes with others.
Where does umpteenth come from?
Umpteenth comes from umpty, meaning an indefinite number. Etymology Online says “umpty” is derived from “Morse code slang for “dash,” influenced by association with numerals such as twenty, thirty, etc.”
How many years is Umteen?
(It was probably created by analogy to actual numbers such as twenty.) Soon, there followed umpteen, blending umpty and -teen. Umpteen usually describes an indefinite and large number or amount, while the related umpteenth is used for the latest or last in an indefinitely numerous series.
What does God say about meddling?
1 Peter 4:15-16 15 But let none of you suffer as a murderer or a thief or an evildoer or as a meddler. 16 Yet if anyone suffers as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God in that name.
Where did doggone it come from?
As for “doggone it,” the expression probably originated as a euphemism for “goddamn it.” The Oxford English Dictionary says “dog-gone” is “generally taken as a deformation of the profane God damn.”